Tales from FAR Manor

Lots of ground to cover this week, so I’ll get right on it… • • • First off , Angela Kulig’s mini-anthology Coffin Nails is free throu...

If you haven’t seen the progress bars to the right of this text, check it out. Especially check out that top one, for Lost in Nightwalk . ...

Daughter Dearest has been living in one of the rental trailers below the father-in-law’s place for the last couple months. I haven’t said mu...

This originally appeared on Google+ in one of  +MJ Bush ’s “tell me a story” prompts. I’m using a similar but different photo here to avoid ...

When I released the first three  Accidental Sorcerers  novellas, I had a good start on the next story in the series. That wasn’t the case fo...

I was working at home Thursday morning, minding my own business, when: KA-RASSHHHHH My first thought was, “OMG,  +E.J Hobbs  jus...

Image source: openclipart.org Once upon a time, in the Strange Lands north of Aht-Lann-Tah, a pretty red-haired girl dwelt with her step...

The fourth Accidental Sorcerers  book is just about ready to depart! Sura, Mik, and Bailar set sail for the Northern Reach, with Lord Dar...

We only had three mini-winters on Planet Georgia this year, although they were pretty harsh. In mid-spring, we get a cold snap they like t...

Say hello to +R.J. Blain , an American expat living in that exotic land called Canada. You could say (I do) that she’s one of the class acts...

Woohoo! The words are flowing, and of course I need to get some edits cranked in. Oh well. +Tony Noland  tagged me in the Writing Proces...

We now return you to the regularly-scheduled weirdness… Stan nudged Cal, sitting next to him in the golf cart. “Ten bucks says Ricky s...

Whew! Zharcon the White is the leader of the Westmarch Conclave, and the mentor for Mik’s friend Charn sim Bas. Accidental Sorcerers ...

This post is really about dialects and idioms. Although Camac’s empire is long past, the language that it spread across the world either rep...

This was actually a place (with a name) before I started the Challenge. It’s the ancient town in Water and Chaos . Xorsecc is one of the l...

Woldland lies on the eastern side of the Gulf of Camac, a vast grassland of plains and rolling hills. The inhabitants, the Wolds, are a semi...

In the time of Camac That Was , Vlis was a small but important city, upriver from Koyr . Surrounded by forest, Vlis supplied Koyr with the l...

Quoting the creation myth: “The Evil One persuaded many people to worship the lesser gods, but a few refused. Those few withdrew from others...

Its official name is A Compact Among the Civilized Nations, Concerning the Use of Magic in Battle , but sorcerers (and nearly everyone else)...

Sorcery, harnessing the classical elements (Earth, Air, Fire, and Water) to produce a physical result, is one of several kinds of magic kno...